People investigation reveals how criminal gangs

MAFIA gangs are behind the sale of deadly booze endangering young Brits on holiday, a Sunday People investigation can reveal.

Last week we told how Hannah Powell, 20, has been left blind after a night out drinking with friends on the Greek holiday isle Zante.

Now we can disclose how a booze price war fuelled by Albanian crime gangs is leaving many others at risk. Our disturbing probe reveals how:

import the cut-price bottles of spirits which are smuggled from warehouses in Bulgaria.

waiters often have no idea about the lethal contents of the booze.

on Zante were overwhelmed with huge numbers of sick Brits who poisoned themselves with alcohol this summer.

Yesterday one concerned local said: “Getting control of the bars and clubs here is big business.

“And Albanian gangsters now run the show. The key is being able to serve drinks at the cheapest possible price.

“Where a cocktail used to cost six euros, now we are told to sell them for two euros.

“Drinks are cheaper because money is saved by importing spirits here from Bulgaria.

“They are so cheap and they can make huge profits selling them on.

“The gangs have associates in Bulgaria who make the booze in secret factories hidden in houses and backyards then sell them on for tourists here to drink.

“It’s very dangerous because they are not professionals.

“They do not check the methanol content and the process can go badly wrong. It puts lives at extreme risk.”

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